2. Moodle A Course Management System, or CMS, is a web-based software application that provides an online environment for learning. Among the many features that Moodle provides are the following: Content management Forums Quizzes with different kinds of questions Blogs Wikis Chat Glossaries For more about Moodle, see http://moodle.org, and particularly the main community “course” called Using Moodle.
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4. We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see.
5. We learn a lot by just observing the activity of our peers.
6. By understanding the contexts of others, we can teach in a more transformational way.
7. A learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants within it.
9. After your course shell has been created (administrator), the next thing you will want to do is to populate your course with content. First, you need to log in and turn editing on. With editing turned on the sections expand and you have icons for editing options displayed next to all editable objects in the course. The following is an explanation for these editing symbols: · Hand/pencil: Allows you to Edit the activities properties · Up/Down arrows: Moves activity up or down in relation to other activities · Left arrow: Indents activity · X: Deletes activity · Eye: Hides/shows activity from/to students Setting up your course
12. Add a Resource (course content) Insert a label You can use labels to help organize sections of your course site. A label can be a brief text label, a paragraph of text, e.g., useful for instructions, or even a graphic. Compose a text page A Text page resource is a simple page written using plain text. Compose a web page You can compose web pages in Moodle, and also copy and paste HTML code from other web pages into Moodle. Web pages give you more options than the simple text page. Link to a file or web site You can upload any type of electronic file you want including audio and video files. You can also create links to any other Web site outside your Moodle course. Display a directory You can use a directory to display the individual files you have uploaded to the course. A directory displays the contents of the entire folder instead of creating individual links to each item. Add an IMS Content Package This feature allows you to upload prepackaged digital learning content to your course. Book Book is a simple multipage study material
13. Editing must be on, choose Composing a Text Page from the Add a Resource menu Composing a Text Page Enter a name for the text page in the Name field. Write a brief summary of the text page in the Summary field. (Optional) Add your text in the Full Text field. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Save changes” button. References: Moodle Docs Text Page (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Text_page) Using Moodle, Chapter 3, Composing a Text Page
14. Composing a Web Page Editing must be on, choose Composing a Web Page from the Add a Resource menu Enter a name for the web page in the Name field. 2. Write a brief summary (optional) of the web page in the Summary field. 3. Create your web page using the built-in HTML editor. The Moodle HTML editor doesn’t work in all browsers. Currently, it works in Netscape 7, Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, Mozilla 1.7, and Firefox. It doesn’t work in Safari, or Opera. 4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Save changes” References: Moodle Docs Web Page (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Web_page) Using Moodle, Chapter 3, Composing a Web Page
15. The HTML editor provides a variety of tools for editing content. The built-in HTML editor provides a word-processor interface embedded in your web page to allow you to edit text in an intuitive way, and produces normal HTML code. In addition to formatting text, this editor provides a number of extra features you may find useful. Paste text in from other Applications You can cut and paste rich text from other Windows applications such as Microsoft Word straight into this editor, and your formatting will be preserved. Just use the normal cut and paste menus in your web browser (or Control-C and Control-V). Inserting images If you have images that are already published on a web site and accessible via a URL, you can include these images in your texts using the "Insert Image" button. Inserting Tables To add layout to your texts, you can use the "Insert Tables" button in the toolbar. Inserting Links To make a new link, first type the text that you want to be a link. Then select it and click the link button (chain) in the toolbar. Type the URL you want to link to. Using the HTML editor This button turns the HTML editor on and off.
18. Editing must be on, choose Link to a File or Website from the Add a Resource menu Moodle allows you to upload a variety of digital content to your course site that you have created in other applications. You can also add links to other web sites to give students access to valuable online resources. Link to a Website Enter a name for the resource in the Name field. 2. Write a brief summary (optional) of the resource in the Summary field. 3. Paste in the URL of the website in Location. 4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Save changes” button. The name of the web page will now be a link in the content block.
19. Linking to a File Enter a name for the resource in the Name field. 2. Write a brief summary (optional) of the resource in the Summary field. 3. Click the “Choose or upload a file” button. A new window will pop up. (Bottom right) This is a list of files you have uploaded to Moodle. Click on upload a file to add new files. Browse for the correct file and click upload this file. It will now be uploaded to Moodle, not your Moodle page yet. From the list of files you have uploaded to Moodle, click Choose. It will populate the Location box. (It helps to expand the window so you can see all of your files.) (bottom left) 5. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Save changes” button. The name of the resource will now be a link in the course section.
21. Forums are the primary tool for online discussions. Forums allow you and your students to communicate with each other at any time, from anywhere with an Internet connection. Students can communicate with you or other students without everyone having to be logged in at the same time. Moodle supports four basic forum types: 1. A single simple discussion You can create only one discussion in this forum. This serves to keep the discussion focused on one specific topic. A single simple discussion is most useful for short/time-limited discussion on a single subject or topic. 2. Standard forum for general use There can be one or more discussions in this forum, and anyone with permission can start a new topic at any time. This is the best general purpose forum. 3. Each person posts one discussion Each person on the class can start only one discussion everyone can reply to them though). This would be useful when each person needs to post an assignment or a question. Each discussion can then have multiple replies. 4. Q And A Forum A Q and A forum is best used when you have a particular question that you wish to have answered. In a Q and A forum, the teacher will post the question and students respond with possible answers. By default a Q and A forum requires students to post once before viewing other students‘ postings. After the initial posting, students can view and respond to others‘ postings. The news forum is a special forum that is automatically created for each course and for the front page of the site, and is a place for general announcements. By default, only teachers and administrators may add news or reply to news. By default, everyone is forced to be subscribed to the news forum. Forums
24. Chats The Chat activity module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web. This is a useful way to communicate with each other on a particular topic at one scheduled time. Since this is a synchronous form of communication, all participants need to be logged in at the same time. The Chat module contains a number of features for managing and reviewing chat discussions. To use the chat tool, you will need to create a chat room for you and your students and set a time when everyone will log in and meet. You can choose to have a one-time chat, continuously open chat, or meet the same time every day or week. You can print transcripts of the chat to review grammar. Chat
25. The assignment activity module allows teachers to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Moodle also supports offline activities, e.g., students can see a description of the assignment, but can't upload files or anything. Grading still works normally, and students will get notifications of their grades. There are four assignment types: Upload a Single File This allows each student to upload a single file in any format, including a ZIP file. Offline Activity This is useful when the assignment is performed outside of Moodle. It could be something elsewhere on the web or a face-to-face activity. Students can see a description of the assignment, but can't upload files or anything. However, teacher can still grade these assignments in the Moodle Gradebook. Online Text This assignment type asks students to submit text, using the normal Moodle editing tools. Teachers can grade them online, and even add inline comments or changes. Advanced Uploading of Files This allows students to upload one or more files in any format. Assignment
26. Assignment Anything the students word-process, they can upload to the Moodle sight, saving printing and paper. It allows you to be alerted when assignments are turned in and you can make notes on them for resubmission.
28. Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment, and assessment is one of the most important activities in education. The Quiz activity allows the teacher to design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of question types, among them multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be reused within courses and between courses and shared among teachers as well. Creating a new quiz is a two-step process. In the first step you create the quiz body and set its options which specify the rules for interacting with the quiz. In a second step you will then edit the quiz to add questions to it. Quiz
29. Quiz The best feature of the quiz it that it grades itself. It also presents the same material in a different order to each student.
30. Quiz The difficult part of using the quiz function is that you have to load all the questions into a bank. The good thing is that you can reuse the questions on different assessments.
31. Quiz In addition to results you get item analysis.
32. The Moodle glossary module enables teachers to create their own, course and subject specific glossaries for their course. With the glossary tool, you can create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary. Glossaries can also contain file attachments, e.g., pictures, sound clips, video files, etc. The entries can be searched or browsed in many different formats. With the Glossary auto linking feature, all references to terms defined in the glossary will be highlighted. Clicking on the highlighted term will bring up the respective glossary definition. A Moodle course consist of a main glossary and one or more secondary glossaries. Only teachers can edit the main glossary. Secondary glossaries may be configured to allow students to add entries to these secondary glossaries. The advantage of using Moodle is that students can create glossary entries, display images, and comment on the entries of their peers. Glossary
33. Glossary The glossary is a good way to accumulate words the students think are important.
35. This feature allows you to add entire lessons that guide the student based on the student’s answers. Think of a lesson as a kind of flowchart. The student reads some content. After the content, you ask the student some questions. Based on the answers the student gives, Moodle will direct the student to another page. This is tedious to set up but worth it in the end. Lesson
36. Lesson The lesson is a great learning tool, but it takes time and practice. I definitely recommend getting the book.
38. A wiki activity is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. In Moodle, wikis can be a powerful tool for collaborative work. The entire class can edit a document together, creating a class product, or each student can have their own wiki and work on it with you and their classmates. Wiki
40. Every user in Moodle automatically has his or her own blog. When you log in, clock on your name and you will see your profile and a tab for your blog. Once students start blogging, you can set up an RSS feed and get their updates sent to you. Grading can be tedious, but once you open one student’s blog, you can click on View all Entries in the box on the right. Blog
41. Blog You can also view all course entries for the blog. The one drawback is the you can only read them and cannot comment. I have them do it so they have a written record of their writing improvement.
42. The Moodle grading system provides a very flexible tool for tracking student scores in your course. You can use it for scored activities both in the classroom and in Moodle. The Moodle Gradebook is the primary tool for recording scores and calculating grades. Each time you create a graded activity from the “Add an Activity” menu in your course, a new grade item is added to the grade book automatically. As the student completes a graded activity, their scores will be entered in the grade book. To view grades, go to your course homepage and click the Grades link in the Administration block. Grades
44. Using the Groups feature, you can assign students to a group within a course. Groups can be applied to an activity, allowing small groups of students to work more closely together on a particular activity. For example, small groups of students using the Wiki and Forum tools to work together on a group project. Using Groups, you only need to create a single instance of any activity, rather than one for each group. In addition, participants in a course can belong to more than one group. There are three group modes: No groups There are no sub groups, everyone is part of one big community (the default). Separate groups Each group can only see their own group, others are invisible. Visible groups Each group works in their own group, but can also see other groups. There are three steps to using groups: 1. Create Groups 2. Add users to the Groups 3. Enable Groups for the Activity Groups Use this feature to separate different classes at the same level. Ej: I have 3 Spanish 3 classes.
48. Great book for world language or ELL. * Easy set up ** Medium *** Tedious Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Learning by Jeff Stanford.
49. Quizzes. * Class Glossary where each student contributes. * Glossary for “word of the day”. * Use a poll to vote on meaning of a word. * Students create a personal vocab list. * Create a crossword in Hot Potatoes and import. ** Cloze activities *** (song lyrics, texts, etc) Matching activities (text to text, pic to text, audio to text). *** Vocabulary Activities
50. Upload recordings that they listen to and repeat. ** Upload their recordings for test/grade. ** Podcasts. ** Presentations. ** Monologues. ** Listen and record their own. ** Speaking Activities
51. Podcasts. ** Use poll to vote on correctness of sentences/phrases. * Practice through dictations. ** Grammar quizzes. * T/F sentences. Compare chat sessions. * Peer grammar review using forums. * Feedback from teacher on assignments. ** Grammar Activities
52. 30,000 copyright-free texts www.gutenberg.org Electronic text archives on google. Use forum for book discussion. * Use web page to post text and recording to follow along. ** Use a poll to vote on texts. * Use Blog to explore texts. ** Using questionnaire to explore texts. *** Match pictures to texts. ** Using Lesson for text predictions. *** Reading Activities
53. Quiz/test essay questions. * Using Mindmap to brainstorm assignments. * (Need program) Blogs in personal profiles* Journal for diary, reflections, drafts, plans. * Blog or Web page for creative writing. * Writing encyclopedia entries using Glossary. * Fluency writing using Chat. * Use Assignment to submit writing. * Write a slideshow commentary using Forum. * Summarize RSS news feeds. ** Collaborative writing using WIKI. ** Interpret wordle. ** Writing Activities
54. I use audacity.com and save as MP3. Then upload a link to file. Cloze activities T/F quizzes Review recordings using Choice. ** Review recordings using Questionnaire. *** Using Forum to discuss recordings they listened to. * Listening Activities
55. Using this add-on module, students assess their level and set up learning goals in different skills. Your admin needs to add to site, but it runs in Mozilla Firefox, not internet explorer. Lolipop ELP
